Every reboot causes the secondary GPT header to become corrupt. dmesg snip... Copyright (c) 1992-2015 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE #0 r286666: Wed Aug 12 15:26:37 UTC 2015 root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 FreeBSD clang version 3.4.1 (tags/RELEASE_34/dot1-final 208032) 20140512 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU M 620 @ 2.67GHz (2660.06-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin="GenuineIntel" Id=0x20652 Family=0x6 Model=0x25 Stepping=2 Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS, HTT,TM,PBE> Features2=0x298e3ff<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT,AESNI> AMD Features=0x28100800<SYSCALL,NX,RDTSCP,LM> AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF> VT-x: PAT,HLT,MTF,PAUSE,EPT,UG,VPID TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics real memory = 8589934592 (8192 MB) avail memory = 8256385024 (7873 MB) Event timer "LAPIC" quality 600 ACPI APIC Table: <DELL E2 > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s) x 2 SMT threads cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 4 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 5 ACPI BIOS Warning (bug): 32/64X FACS address mismatch in FADT: 0xCF36BF40/0x00000000CF36ED40, using 64-bit address (20150515/tbfadt- 305) ada0 at ahcich0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0 ada0: <ST9640423AS 0001SDM1> ATA8-ACS SATA 2.x device ada0: Serial Number 5WS0JWSP ada0: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, cd0 at ahcich1 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0 ada0: Command Queueing enabled ada0: 610480MB (1250263728 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) ada0: quirks=0x1<4K> ada0: Previously was known as ad4 GEOM: ada0: the secondary GPT table is corrupt or invalid. GEOM: ada0: using the primary only -- recovery suggested. GEOM: diskid/DISK-5WS0JWSP: the secondary GPT table is corrupt or invalid. GEOM: diskid/DISK-5WS0JWSP: using the primary only -- recovery suggested. # uname -a FreeBSD catbert.rotfl.com.au 10.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE #0 r286666: Wed Aug 12 15:26:37 UTC 2015 root@releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 # gpart show => 34 1250263661 ada0 GPT (596G) [CORRUPT] 34 6 - free - (3.0K) 40 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K) 1064 1241512952 2 freebsd-ufs (592G) 1241514016 4194304 3 freebsd-swap (2.0G) 1245708320 4555375 - free - (2.2G) # gpart status Name Status Components ada0p1 CORRUPT ada0 ada0p2 CORRUPT ada0 ada0p3 CORRUPT ada0 # gpart recover ada0 ada0 recovered # gpart status Name Status Components ada0p1 OK ada0 ada0p2 OK ada0 ada0p3 OK ada0 But after a reboot, it will be corrupt again. Either the gpart recover command isn't actually rewriting the secondary GPT header, or something in the shutdown process is corrupting it.
^Triage: I'm sorry that this PR did not get addressed in a timely fashion. By now, the version that it was created against is long out of support. Please re-open if it is still a problem on a supported version.